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Just listening to Rush about the same-sex marriage cases in front of the Supreme Court, esp. Prop 8, from here in California.

Rush had an excellent caller late in the show who talked about the pressure on his kids from the education system, and how indoctrination about gay marriage in schools often put a wedge between the children and their church. He pointed out that once gay marriage was deemed a "civil right", any church that did not perform gay marriages could be regarded as discriminatory, as bigoted as the Klan.

The caller then talked about the 1887 Edmunds-Tucker Act as a precedent for what could now occur to churches if gay marriage was deemed a civil right:

The act:

Disincorporated the LDS Church and the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, with assets to be used for public schools in the Territory.[1]
Required an anti-polygamy oath for prospective voters, jurors and public officials.
Annulled territorial laws allowing illegitimate children to inherit.
Required civil marriage licenses (to aid in the prosecution of polygamy).
Abrogated the common law spousal privilege for polygamists, thus requiring wives to testify against their husbands.[2]
Disfranchised women (who had been enfranchised by the Territorial legislature in 1870).
Replaced local judges (including the previously powerful Probate Court judges) with federally appointed judges.
Abolished the office of Territorial superintendent of district schools, granting the supreme court of the Territory of Utah the right to appoint a commissioner of schools. Also called for the prohibition of the use of sectarian books and for the collection of statistics of the number of so-called gentiles and Mormons attending and teaching in the schools.[3]

In 1890 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the seizure of Church property under the Edmunds–Tucker Act in Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States.

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound - Unknown

The Left in general wants this country to collapse and if they can use militant queers to that end, they will. Scrap God, toss Him out of the public and their path is made easy.

The left is a cancer on America and this cancer is killing her. Sadly I'm beggining to think the only way that the left's strangle hold on our country can be broken will be through force of arms. The current crop of Republicans in DC don't have the backbone to do what's neccessary to fight what's been happening and are going along to get along so not to upset anyone.

Solve a man's problem with violence and help him for a day. Teach a man how to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime - Belkar Bitterleaf

Wife and I were talking about this and the only thing that saves churches here is the 1st Amendment. You can't enforce one group's civil rights by infringing on another group's civil rights. The 1st amendment specifically states that we have the freedom of religion and the "free exercise thereof" meaning that a gay couple can't force in a court of law a church to perform a gay marriage because in most religions, homosexuality goes against the churches tenets. What else is saving the churches is that they do not get any public funding. If they did, they'd be in trouble but since they don't, the state cannot compel them. However, no judge or any other public servant who is authorized to perform marriages(mayors, governors, etc) are going to be allowed to refuse ceremonies.

Wife and I were talking about this and the only thing that saves churches here is the 1st Amendment. You can't enforce one group's civil rights by infringing on another group's civil rights. The 1st amendment specifically states that we have the freedom of religion and the "free exercise thereof" meaning that a gay couple can't force in a court of law a church to perform a gay marriage because in most religions, homosexuality goes against the churches tenets. What else is saving the churches is that they do not get any public funding. If they did, they'd be in trouble but since they don't, the state cannot compel them. However, no judge or any other public servant who is authorized to perform marriages(mayors, governors, etc) are going to be allowed to refuse ceremonies.

The First Amendment is enforced only for perverse methodology only anymore... anything that demeans America, Christianity and moral decency. This is about forcing mentally ill views down our throats. The People have spoken, time and time again, they DON'T WANT gay marriage. The MSM and judiciary will over-turn the will of the People because they can...

Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan

We could say they are spending like drunken sailors. That would be unfair to drunken sailors, they're spending their OWN money.
Ronald Reagan